Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of HIV-1 Infection and AIDS

Robert A. Stern
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Brown University School of Medicine
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
and
Department of Psychiatry
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island 02903.

Diana O. Perkins
Department of Psychiatry
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599.

and

Dwight L. Evans
Departments of Psychiatry
Medicine, and Neuroscience
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida 32610.


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